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The following steps show how to enroll corporate owned devices using Apple Business Manager (formerly known as DEP). Apple combined the DEP portal and VPP portal into a single portal called Apple Business Manager. Using Apple Business Manager, MDM administrator can enroll devices into MDM silently and deploy apps to devices silently as well.

Consumer purchased Apple Devices:

The consumer purchased iOS devices(not through DEP) can be enrolled into DEP and lockdown with MDM. This is available since iOS 11. This requires a physical access to device though. Using the latest Apple Configurator tool (a free tool from Apple) on a MAC computer and connecting the devices to MAC computer via USB. Instructions are here.